circumstantiate

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Verb

circumstantiate (circumstantiates, present participle circumstantiating; past and past participle circumstantiated)

1. To describe, verify or prove by setting out circumstantial evidence
   • 1661, State Trials

     Neither will time permit to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general.

2. To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.

   • If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly.

Translations

• Portuguese: circunstanciar

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